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| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starting Price | $3.25e-8 per prompt token | $1.05e-6 per prompt token |
| Capabilities | 5 decomposed | 13 decomposed |
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Generates coherent text responses using Qwen2.5 architecture with a 1 million token context window, enabling processing of entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories in a single request without context truncation. The model uses optimized attention mechanisms and KV-cache management to handle extended contexts while maintaining inference speed, accessed via OpenRouter's unified API endpoint that abstracts provider-specific implementation details.
Unique: Qwen2.5 architecture achieves 1M token context window with optimized KV-cache management and sparse attention patterns, offering 5-10x longer context than GPT-3.5 at significantly lower per-token cost while maintaining reasonable latency through Alibaba's inference infrastructure optimization
vs alternatives: Substantially cheaper than Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4 Turbo for long-context tasks while maintaining competitive quality, making it ideal for cost-sensitive production workloads that don't require state-of-the-art reasoning
Optimized for rapid token generation with sub-second time-to-first-token (TTFT) and high tokens-per-second throughput, using quantization and inference optimization techniques deployed on Alibaba's distributed GPU cluster. The model prioritizes speed over maximum quality, making it suitable for real-time chat, streaming responses, and interactive applications where user-perceived latency matters more than perfect accuracy.
Unique: Qwen-Turbo uses Alibaba's proprietary inference optimization stack including dynamic batching, KV-cache quantization, and GPU memory pooling to achieve <200ms TTFT and >100 tokens/second throughput, outperforming similarly-priced alternatives through infrastructure-level optimization rather than model architecture changes
vs alternatives: Faster and cheaper than Mistral 7B or Llama 2 70B for streaming applications while maintaining comparable quality, with the advantage of being cloud-hosted (no self-hosting infrastructure required)
Provides low per-token pricing (typically $0.15-0.30 per 1M input tokens) through aggressive model optimization and efficient batch processing on shared GPU infrastructure. Qwen-Turbo trades some quality and reasoning capability for dramatically reduced computational cost, making it economically viable for high-volume, low-margin applications like content moderation, simple classification, or bulk text processing where cost per request is the primary constraint.
Unique: Qwen-Turbo achieves 70-80% cost reduction vs GPT-3.5 Turbo through a combination of smaller model size (14B parameters), aggressive quantization to INT8, and Alibaba's high-capacity GPU clusters that amortize infrastructure costs across millions of concurrent users
vs alternatives: Significantly cheaper than any OpenAI or Anthropic model while maintaining better quality than open-source alternatives like Mistral 7B, making it the optimal choice for cost-sensitive production workloads that don't require state-of-the-art reasoning
Designed for straightforward, well-defined tasks that don't require complex reasoning or multi-step problem solving — such as answering factual questions, summarizing text, translating languages, or generating simple creative content. The model uses a base instruction-tuned architecture optimized for clarity and directness, reducing the need for elaborate prompt engineering or few-shot examples that might be necessary with less specialized models.
Unique: Qwen-Turbo's instruction tuning prioritizes clarity and directness for simple tasks, using a simplified token vocabulary and reduced model depth compared to general-purpose models, enabling faster inference and lower error rates on well-defined, non-ambiguous prompts
vs alternatives: More reliable than open-source 7B models for simple tasks while being 10x cheaper than GPT-4, making it ideal for applications where task complexity is low and cost matters more than handling edge cases
Accessed through OpenRouter's abstraction layer, which provides a standardized REST API interface that handles provider routing, load balancing, and fallback logic transparently. Developers write code against OpenRouter's unified schema rather than Alibaba Cloud's native API, enabling easy switching between Qwen-Turbo and other models (GPT, Claude, Llama) without changing application code — OpenRouter handles authentication, rate limiting, and billing aggregation across providers.
Unique: OpenRouter's abstraction layer implements provider-agnostic request routing with automatic fallback, cost-aware model selection, and unified billing — developers use a single OpenAI-compatible API schema to access Qwen-Turbo, GPT-4, Claude, and 100+ other models without code changes
vs alternatives: More flexible than direct Alibaba Cloud API access because it enables multi-provider strategies and fallback logic, while being simpler than building custom provider abstraction layers — the trade-off is slightly higher latency and cost compared to direct API calls
GLM-5.1 executes multi-step coding tasks over extended timeframes without requiring human intervention between steps, using an internal planning mechanism that decomposes complex objectives into sub-tasks and maintains execution state across sequential operations. Unlike minute-level interaction models that require prompting after each step, this capability enables the model to autonomously navigate decision trees, handle errors, and adapt strategy based on intermediate results without context resets.
Unique: Designed specifically for minute+ autonomous execution windows rather than single-turn interactions; maintains internal execution state and decision-making across extended task horizons without requiring external orchestration or re-prompting between steps
vs alternatives: Outperforms GPT-4 and Claude for long-horizon coding tasks because it's architected for continuous autonomous operation rather than stateless request-response cycles
GLM-5.1 generates and refactors code with awareness of the full codebase structure, dependencies, and patterns, using semantic understanding of how changes in one file propagate to others. The model analyzes import graphs, function signatures, and usage patterns across files to ensure generated code maintains consistency and doesn't introduce breaking changes, rather than treating each file in isolation.
Unique: Maintains semantic awareness of codebase structure and cross-file dependencies during generation, enabling it to make coordinated changes across multiple files rather than treating each file independently
vs alternatives: Produces more consistent multi-file refactorings than Copilot or Claude because it reasons about the entire codebase context simultaneously rather than file-by-file
Z.ai: GLM 5.1 scores higher at 24/100 vs Qwen: Qwen-Turbo at 21/100.
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GLM-5.1 diagnoses errors and bugs by analyzing error messages, stack traces, and code context to identify root causes and suggest fixes. The model correlates error symptoms with likely causes, explains why errors occur, and provides specific debugging steps or code fixes.
Unique: Diagnoses errors by correlating symptoms with root causes using semantic understanding of code and error patterns, providing explanations and fixes rather than just pattern matching
vs alternatives: More effective at diagnosing subtle bugs than search-based solutions because it reasons about code semantics and error causality
GLM-5.1 identifies performance bottlenecks in code and suggests optimizations with specific implementation guidance, analyzing algorithms, data structures, and resource usage to recommend improvements. The model understands performance implications of different approaches and can suggest algorithmic or architectural changes to improve efficiency.
Unique: Suggests optimizations based on algorithmic and architectural analysis rather than just code-level tweaks, understanding performance implications of different approaches
vs alternatives: Provides more meaningful performance guidance than generic LLMs because it understands algorithm complexity and can suggest structural improvements
GLM-5.1 analyzes code for security vulnerabilities including injection attacks, authentication/authorization issues, cryptographic weaknesses, and data exposure risks, providing specific remediation guidance. The model understands common vulnerability patterns and security best practices to identify risks and suggest secure implementations.
Unique: Identifies security vulnerabilities through semantic analysis of code patterns and provides remediation guidance based on security best practices, not just pattern matching against known CVEs
vs alternatives: More effective at finding context-specific security issues than SAST tools because it understands code intent and can suggest secure implementations
GLM-5.1 performs step-by-step reasoning about code behavior by internally simulating or tracing execution paths, allowing it to predict runtime behavior, identify bugs, and explain code logic without requiring actual execution. This capability uses chain-of-thought-like reasoning applied specifically to code semantics, tracking variable state, control flow, and function call sequences to reason about correctness.
Unique: Applies extended reasoning specifically to code semantics and execution paths, enabling it to predict runtime behavior and identify subtle bugs through symbolic execution simulation rather than pattern matching
vs alternatives: More effective at finding subtle logic bugs than GPT-4 because it explicitly traces execution state rather than relying on pattern recognition
GLM-5.1 maintains rich context across multiple conversation turns when working on code, remembering previous edits, design decisions, and constraints without requiring users to re-specify them. The model builds an internal model of the codebase state and user intent that persists across turns, enabling iterative refinement where each turn builds on previous work rather than starting fresh.
Unique: Maintains stateful context across turns specifically optimized for code collaboration, remembering design decisions and codebase state without explicit memory structures
vs alternatives: Provides better iterative code refinement than stateless models because it retains context about previous edits and design intent across turns
GLM-5.1 translates natural language specifications into code that preserves semantic intent, handling ambiguous or underspecified requirements by inferring reasonable implementations based on context and common patterns. The model uses semantic understanding of both natural language and code to bridge the gap between high-level intent and low-level implementation details.
Unique: Translates natural language to code with explicit semantic fidelity checking, inferring reasonable implementations for underspecified requirements rather than producing literal or incomplete code
vs alternatives: Handles ambiguous requirements better than Copilot because it uses semantic reasoning to infer intent rather than pattern matching against training data
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